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The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Astrophysicists have gotten a better glimpse at what happens to crashing neutron stars by listening in on the electromagnetic echoes of the collision. Christopher Intagliata reports. --

The Japanese startup PD Aerospace is developing a reusable space plane that will use a combination of jet engines and a rocket motor to take customers to space by as early as 2023. The post Japanese Startup is Working on...

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Data from the Cassini mission has revealed a massive hexagonal shaped storm high in the stratosphere of Saturn's north pole. The post Cassini Data Has Revealed a Towering Hexagonal Storm at Saturn’s Northern Pole appea...

Chinese launch startup OneSpace successfully performed its first launch from a national launch site Sept.7, following a similar feat by competitor iSpace days earlier. SpaceNews.com

The Royal Thai Air Force awarded a contract to ISIS Space of the Netherlands to deliver a complete satellite in orbit next year, ISIS Space announced Sept. 7. SpaceNews.com

NASA successfully tested a supersonic parachute designed to land the agency's next rover on Mars today (Sept. 7) during a sounding rocket flight from Wallops Island in Virginia.

Just because Jupiter's moon Europa is coated in ice doesn't mean all that ice is the same temperature.

The starry arc of the Milky Way galaxy sprawls across the evening sky on a spring night in this photo captured near the village of Campinho in Portugal's Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve.

Apart from a billion Milky Way stars, ESA's Gaia spacecraft also observes extragalactic objects. Its automated alert system notifies astronomers whenever Gaia spots a transient event. A team of astronomers have found out...

Spanish space hardware supplier Sener hopes to provide more equipment to satellite manufacturers thanks to its $93 million acquisition of Tryo Aerospace, but faces challenging market conditions as satellite operators con...

Phosphorus, which is vital to life but somewhat rare, condensed inside asteroids in the outer Solar System before moving back towards the sun, where some of it ended up on Earth, according to new research.

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched on April 18, has as its core mission goal to discover small transiting exoplanets orbiting nearby bright stars, and to do so it will conduct a nearly all-sky pho...

Our week through the lens: 3 - 7 September 2018

The first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defense has moved into the final design and assembly phase, following NASA's approval last month.

The jet’s apparent (but not actual) superluminal velocity provide new constraints on the merger and its aftermath --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or neutron stars in a galaxy 300 million light years from Earth.

After snagging a new rock sample on Aug. 9, NASA's Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Mars, producing a 360-degree panorama of its current location on Vera Rubin Ridge.

NASA will hold a live "science chat" today (Sept. 7) to showcase the success of the space agency's Dawn asteroid mission as the spacecraft nears the end of its mission, and you can watch it live online.

Hurricane Florence looks like a giant cotton ball in new photos snapped from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold.